[News] Another Open Graphics Development Board is Here - Linux

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| Additional details are available on the Traversal Technology Product Page.
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http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php?page=OGD1
Mentioned yesterday:
Project VGA
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| Home of the Low Budget, Open Source, VGA Compatible video card
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| This project is on the basis that a GPU should not end up with
| tons of propriatary software or hardware, containing hidden
| problems that aren't mentioned to the press, and yet cause
| nervous breakdowns for developers worldwide.
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| The OGP grew rapidly after I first started it, and it's continued to
| grow gradually since then. Now, we have Traversal Technology and also
| the Open Hardware Foundation that's dedicated to the non-profit,
| community, and democratic aspects of the project. Our mailing list has
| over 500 members, including well-known Linux kernel hackers, 3D graphics
| experts, college professors, representatives of many other open
| source projects, hardware designers, and people who want to become
| hardware designers.
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| Before Bug Labs can disrupt an industry it has to develop into a final
| product. And for now Semmelhack presses forward inspired by a quote from
| Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Inc. "the journey is the reward," Semmelhack
| repeated. "If you are unhappy with something in your life, make a change.
| That's how Bug Labs got born," said Semmelhack. Â* Â*
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| EVER SINCE open-source software created a buzz, people have stroked chins,
| pondered and pontificated about the possibility of open-source hardware â€“ and
| now itâ€™s becoming a reality. Â*
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| Open Hardware is the future of technology, and all we need to kick off this
| next great revolution in technology is to have the right tools in the right Â*
| place at the right time. Â*After that, the skyâ€™s the limit! Â*
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| And when there is unrestricted collaboration, nearly anything is possible.
| Buglabs, the open source hardware movement and other yet-to-be discovered
| frontiers have the same opportunity here. Â*
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| Still, Hicks says that it's possible to use open source hardware designs with
| field-programmable gate arrays, "which are quite affordable," and points to
| OpenSPARC and the OPENCORES community of open hardware designers as examples
| of real-world usage of open hardware. Â*
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| Phipps says that he sees open hardware following in the footsteps of FOSS,
| though he says mainstreaming of open hardware "will take much longer ... to
| get a foothold." Â*
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| On Monday, Perens plans to announce the TAPR Open Hardware
| License, a document written by John Ackerman designed
| specifically to govern hardware designs that can be
| modified and redistrubuted. Perens plans to submit the
| license to the Open Source Initiative for its as an
| open-source license.
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| Another interesting approach involves using Linux itself to initialize the
| hardware. The LinuxBIOS takes the approach of loading a small Linux kernel
| directly into the boot ROM. This approach is increasingly practical now that
| boards have 1-2MB of flash ROM onboard, according to Seebach. Â*
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| This begs the question: is anyone currently using LinuxBIOS on
| their machines? You bet they are. According to one recent report,
| LinuxBIOS was installed on about one million machines and that
| existing number is expected to rise significantly, assuming the
| rate of growth remains constant.
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